When it comes to the question: Why do you think educators are so resistant to change, especially when it comes to technology? I agree with the others that a fear factor sets in of either change or the fact that it has to do with technology. To me the bigger problem is are we being professionals?
Would you go to a doctor if you found out they weren’t keeping up with changes in their field and are just happy with the way it’s always been done. I don’t think so, yet this applies to the educational field. To finish I’d like to take a quote from Ian Jukes, a nationally renowned educational speaker:
"Houston, We Have a Problem
No other sector ignores its own research as much as education. We know that teaching-as-talking doesn’t work. We know that project-based learning is dramatically more effective in helping students to learn and retain information. We now know a lot about why kids act, learn, and view the world differently than we do. Yet sadly, little of what we know is being applied to classroom instruction today.
Over 50% of Grade 9 students in the 35 largest cities in the United States don’t graduate. Would you fly in an airplane if 50% of them crashed? Would you buy a television that only works half the time? Why do we tolerate such massive failure in our educational system? What education is doing today isn’t working. If we continue to do what we know doesn’t work, then who really has the learning problem? Is it the students or is it US?"
As for the second question: How do other institutions, such as business, deal with technological change? I believe they move forward for the good of the company or institution. Secondly, they train the participants so they can handle the change. This is where there are possibilities for education to change their ways in comparison to business.
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I can’t stand how administrations stress change but fail to enact policies to allow teachers to change. In my school they only want the students to have homework on specific days. Math is on Monday, Science on Tuesday, English on Thursday, and Social Studies on Friday. This was a change that the teachers did not want. Many of us asked for more computer labs but that was shot down. I think that change is something many of us would accept if it made our lives easier. I know that most teachers would love to do more projects, but in the state of Texas that is impossible to do until after the TAKS tests this week. After this week, administrators don’t care about the teachers and whether or not we are “Teaching the Book.”
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